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BLAME FOR DEFICITS FOR DUMMIES
With this post, I hope to provide some assistance in sorting out the blame for the United States national debt, which is over 12 trillion dollars, amounting to over $113,000 per taxpayer and over $40,000 per citizen. First, President George W. Bush deserves blame for the national debt. When he took office, the national debt […]
Did Anabaptists Believe in Justification by Faith Alone?
Theologian Timothy George, the founding dean of Beeson Divinity School, wrote in his Theology of the Reformers in 1988 (p. 269): Menno, and Anabaptists generally, did not accept Luther’s forensic doctrine of justification by faith alone because they saw it as an impediment to the truth doctrine of a ‘lively’ faith which issues in holy […]
Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part five
What is superior, so-called external evidence or Scripture? None of us have seen Jesus. None of us have witnessed His return. Peter saw the Lord in His second coming glory, an “eyewitness of His majesty” on the Mt. of Transfiguration, and yet he said that he had “a more sure word of prophecy.” The predictions […]
Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part four
How do most false doctrines and then false religions start? They do when people try to fit the Bible into something that isn’t in the Bible. They attempt to conform the Bible to somebody’s life or problem. They scramble through Scripture looking for a way to explain something that they want. And then they find […]
Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part three
The Bible was complete in the first century A.D. All the doctrine we were ever to believe is found in Scripture. Any doctrine that was not in the Bible when it was finished would be an additional doctrine, a new teaching. It would also be something different than what God’s Word says. For instance, the […]
Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part two
Aaron Blumer in his article, Preservation: How and What?, finishes with this line: “Divine authority cannot be properly claimed for either position.” We came to know the two positions to which he refers as those he titled “discrete preservation” and “dispersed preservation.” Aaron concludes that there is no Divine authority, and by that he means […]
Answering the SharperIron Article on Preservation part one
Here is my answer to the Aaron Blumer article on SharperIron, entitled, Preservation: How and What? I say thanks to Aaron, who is also Pastor Blumer of Grace Baptist Church of Boyceville, Wisconsin. I respect him for going at this issue. And I mean no disrespect in saying that he misses it in a big […]
Heads Up on a Preservation Article I’ll Be Answering Here
Over at SharperIron, perhaps the most well-known fundamentalist blog and forum on the internet, the owner/editor, Aaron Blumer, a very decent Christian man, has written an article on preservation. He separates positions on preservation to two, and one of them, what he calls the discrete position, is the one we take. I wouldn’t call it […]
Taking Liberties that Are Not Ours to Take
I can’t climb through an open window into your house without being invited. That’s not a liberty that is mine to take. I don’t get to borrow your car because the door is unlocked and the keys are in the ignition. You understand those in a personal way. You also can comprehend certain actions like […]
Is This Statement Scriptural? “Strictly speaking, biblical “separation” is refusing to extend Christian fellowship to someone who denies the gospel.”
I like reading Scott Aniol’s Religious Affections. Jonathan Edward’s A Treatise concerning Religious Affections is important to have read and understand, and Scott does well to name his blog that. Most don’t know or understand the implications of not knowing what Edwards talks about in his treatise. I believe he provides a very informative and […]
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